Krishan Lal Kaila#Awards

{{Short description|Indian geophysicist and seismologist}}

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| name = Krishan Lal Kaila

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|9|7}}

| birth_place = Lahore, British India

| death_date = 2003

| death_place = New Delhi, India

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Seismology | Geophysics }}

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| known_for = Studies on deep seismic soundings

| awards = {{ublist | 1976 IGU Krishnan Medal | 1977 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 1994 IGU Decennial Award }}

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Krishan Lal Kaila (1932–2003) was an Indian geophysicist and seismologist.{{cite book|author1=M. M. Kaila|author2=Rakhi Kaila|title=Molecular Imaging of the Brain: Using Multi-Quantum Coherence and Diagnostics of Brain Disorders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06cuTEHF6jcC&pg=PR25|date=20 September 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-30301-2|pages=25–}} Born to a Punjabi Hindu family in Lahore of the British India (presently in Pakistan) on 7 September 1932,{{cite book|author1=Madan M Kaila|author2=Rakhi Kaila|title=Quantum Magnetic Resonance Imaging Diagnostics of Human Brain Disorders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqmFI88W8rQC&pg=PR9|date=21 June 2010|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-384712-6|pages=9–}} he was known for his studies on deep seismic soundings (DSS){{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=492 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}} and was one of the pioneers of the DSS technique in India. His studies covered the tectonic regions of Kadapa, Dharwar Craton, Deccan Traps, and the sedimentary basins of Gujarat and the Himalayas and added to the understanding of the geophysics of the region.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=10 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }} His researches have been documented as several peer-reviewed articles;{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} ResearchGate, an online article repository has listed 117 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/71964671_KL_Kaila |title=on ResearchGate |date=2016 }} Several authors have cited his works in their work.{{cite book|author=J. D. Macdougall|title=Continental Flood Basalts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsGLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT305|date=17 April 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-015-7805-9|pages=305–}}{{cite book|author=R.K. Verma|title=Gravity Field, Seismicity and Tectonics of the Indian Peninsula and the Himalayas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGJDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-009-5259-1|pages=197–}}{{cite book|author=Ching-Hua Lo|title=Solid Earth (SE)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RpqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA115|year=2011|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4355-38-4|pages=115–}}